Shingle



pril 22 1924.

O. D. MCFARLAND SHINGLE Filed Dec. 5, 192.1

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Patented Apr. 22, 1924..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN D. MGFARLAND, F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 HARRY A.

CUMFER, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHINGLE.

. Application filed December 5, 1921. Serial No. 519,986.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known' that I, OWEN'D. MOFARLAND,

a citizen of the United States, residing Chicago, in the county of Cook and btate of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shingles.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide an improved shingle.

Another object is to provide a shingle bearing on its surface a visible guide for indicating the positions of other adjacent shingles. Y

Another object is to provide a shingle which bears on its face a stripe of color contrasting with that of its exposed butt or body and which serves as a guide and 1s visible between the side edges of adjacent shingles in a given course to accentuate the separation between the shingles and to increase the apparent thickness of the shingles.

Another object is to provide a guide, of

the character and for the purpose described, of such nature that its intended purpose is not disturbed by exposing either end of the shingle to the weather.

Another object is to provide a shingle having the improved guide or guides upon both of its sides so that either of its sides may be exposed to the weather without loss of time in laying the shingles on a roof.

Another object of the invention is to pro- 85 vide a shingle having a fire-resistant covering or facing, such as slate or other divided mineral, of different colors on opposite sides, and each side bearing the guide or suitably placed stripes or kerfs.

Another object is to provide a shingle bearing on its face the improved guide and visible indications locating the points for insertion of the nails.

Another object is to provide a shingle having on or in its face astripe or lerf of contrasting color, which originates and terminates in the face of the shingle, to serve as a guide for laying the shingle on the roof.

Other objects and advantages of the in-l l0 vention will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings Fig. 1 shows a roof made of my improved shingles as it appears when laid.

Fig. 2 shows a plan View of the shingles of which the roof is made.

Fig. 3 is a modification.

Fig. 4 is another modification.

'Fig 5'is a section taken on line. 5 5 of Fig. 3 when the stripe or kerf is impressed in the body part ofthe shingle.

The shingle 10, consists in one of its forms, of the body part saturated with a waterproof material, such as asphalt or the like, and overlaid by fire-resistant divided material, such as slate or other mineral matter, to give the coatin or surface of the shlngle a desired color. he opposite side of the shingle may, or may not, be coated with similar material, ot' a different color. One side may be colored red and the other green, for example, so that a variety of effects may be produced in the roof by the use of the single shingles in exposing either one or the other side of the shingles to view, or the bottom surface of the shingle may remain uncoated with slate.

The shingle is provided with one or more black stripes or kerfs 11 extending parallel with the longest axis of the shingle and suitably spaced apart. The shingle 10El may have one kerf '11, while the-shingle l0 is provided with two kerfs or stripes serving as guides for placing thel shingles upon a roof and in Fig. 4, 10b may have two kerfs ,11 located closer together than those shown 1n Fig. 2. The kerf or indicating guides 11 are preferably black and made on the shingle either by painting or by submerging the colored slate coating into the underlying layer of asphalt, thereby providing a kert in the face of the shingle which serves substantially the same purpose. When the shingles are laid upon the roof, after the first course, the edge 12 of the shingle 10 is laid parallel with the adjoining edge of the kerf 11 of the adjoining shingle, as at 13, and the kerf 11 appears between the edges 14 and 15 of the subsequent-adjacent course. The companion kerf or stripe 11", shown in Fig. 1, is overlain by a shingle of the subsequently laid course, so that only one of thestripes or guides 1l is shown. When the structure shown in Fig. 2 is used the lap of the overlying course appears at one side of the transverse center of the shingle, whereas if Fig. 3 be employedthe lap will always occur in the center of the shingle7 and if the struct-ure shown in Fig. t is employed the lap will occur at a point Inearer the center than when the shingle shown in Fig. 2 is used. The shingles of a given course are separated -a distance equal to the width of the kerf or stripe.

While I am impressing the kerfs 1l in the face-of the shingle7 I also indent points 16, preferably n opposite sides of the shingle, to indicate the place where 'nails are to be driven into the shingle; these of the shingles.

It is, of course, apparent that if a strip containing a plurality of shingle-simulating parts be employed the stripes may con-` veniently be' located on the terminal shingle that serves as a guide for laying the strips.

While I have herein shown a single embodiment of my invention wit-h two modifieations for the purpose of indicating generally the variations that are apparent, it will be manifest that many other modifications along the same line ma be made without the necessity of speclfic illustration within the scope of the appended claims.

Hawing described my invention what I claim, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

LVA shingle having an area on its face visibl-y distinguishable from the face, said area being entirely enclosed within the face surface to serve as a gage in placing the Shingles of an adjacent course.

2. A shingle having an area on its face visibly distinguishable from the face and surrounded by the face surface to serve as a gage in placing the shingles of an adjacent course` and to accentuate the appearance of separation of shingles of the same course.

3. A shingle having an outlined distinguishable` elongated area on its face terminating at both ends at a material distance from the boundary edges of the shingle.

4. A shingle having a distinguishable stripe on its face located inside of and spaced from the boundary thereof.

5. A shingle having a distinguishable, elon ated stripel on its face, parallel with the ongest axis of the shingle and located wholly within and surrounded hy the face surface.

6. A shingle having a distinguishable stripe in the mid-portion of its face` whollly within the boundaryI7 of the shingle and and entirely surrounded by said facing surface.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name.

OWEN D. MCFARLAND. 

